Secret Invasion episode 1 leaves Marvel fans reeling with shock ending
Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Secret Invasion episode 1 . If you've yet to tune in and don't want to know what happens, turn back now!
Secret Invasion has finally kicked off on Disney Plus, and its first episode doesn't pull any punches when it comes to dramatic moments. The first comes mere minutes in, when Ben Mendelsohn's Talos reveals that a Skrull has been masquerading as Agent Ross. The pilot's last scene, however, was the one that hit Marvel fans really hard, as the show looked to kill off S.H.I.E.L.D. commander Maria Hill.
Somewhat ironically called 'Resurrection', the opener sees Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) return to Earth to investigate a bunch of terrorist attacks that Talos and Maria (Cobie Smulders) believe is the work of hostile Skrulls. Later, we learn that Talos' daughter Gi'ah (Emilia Clarke) has allied herself with shady individual Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), and that the pair's group plan of executing humankind and making the planet the Skrulls' new home.
Fury, Hill, and Talos' digging leads them to an explosives expert in Moscow, who has supposedly sold bombs to Gi'ah, and while tracking her, Talos comes face to face with Gi'ah himself. While his efforts to thwart her anger prove fruitless, Gi'ah does let slip that she and Gravik are planning on bombing a big event in the capital the following day, which prompts Fury, Hill, and Talos' to plot a city-saving intervention.
Turns out, though, that it was all just a trap and Hill gets shot in the stomach by Gravik, posing as Fury in the chaos, while the real bombs – ones that the trio didn't have eyes on – go off nearby. While we don't see Hill actually die, she's not in a good way by the time the real Fury finds her and the
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